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BDK ENGLISH TRIPITAKA SERIES:A Progress ReportIn 2004, three new titles comprising the Tenth Set of the BDKEnglish Tripitaka Series will be published (see below for list of forthcomingvolumes).The following volumes of the Taisho Tripitaka Series have been publishedto date, for a total of fifty texts in twenty-eight volumes:The Summary of the Great Vehicle [Taisho 1593] (Revised SecondEdition, 2003)The Biographical Scripture of King Asoka [Taisho 2043] (1993)The Lotus Sutra [Taisho 262] (1994)The Sutra on Upasaka Precepts [Taisho 1488] (1994)The Essentials of the Eight Traditions [extracanonical] and TheCandle of the Latter Dharma [extracanonical] (1994)The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables [Taisho 203] (1994)A Biography of the Tripitaka Master of the Great Ci’en Monasteryof the Great Tang Dynasty [Taisho 2053] (1995)The Three Pure Land Sutras: The Larger Sutra on Amitayus[Taisho 360]; The Sutra on Contemplation of Amitayus [Taisho365]; The Smaller Sutra on Amitayus [Taisho 366] (RevisedSecond Edition, 2003)The Essentials of the Vinaya Tradition [Taisho 2348] and The CollectedTeachings of the Tendai Lotus School [Taisho 2366] (1995)Tannisho: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith [Taisho2661] and Rennyo Shonin Ofumi: The Letters of Rennyo[Taisho 2668] (1996)The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions [Taisho2087] (1996)Senchaku Hongan Nembutsu Shu (A Collection of Passages onthe Nembutsu Chosen in the Original Vow) [Taisho 2608] (1997)The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra [Taisho 418] and TheSurangama Samadhi Sutra [Taisho 642] (1998)The Blue Cliff Record [Taisho 2003] (1999)389